D'Arcy Norman

@dnorman
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Learning technologies, design, research, etc. Associate Director of Learning Technologies and Design at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. Also, PhD candidate, looking at applying concepts from analysis of video games to describing teaching and learning. And other stuff.
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D'Arcy NormanNov 9, 2022
One of our vendors is making big PR waves with a product announcement. Basically, they finally modernized the content authoring side of their platform. The new feature isn’t part of the core product we’ve licensed for a decade now, and it’s a 40% “uplift” to our annual license if we want it. No, thanks though.
D'Arcy NormanNov 7, 2022
Mastodon as a Docker container… this might be interesting as a one-click install option for web hosting providers… https://hub.docker.com/r/tootsuite/mastodon/#!
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@grantpotter have you seen Elicit? AI for finding papers by asking questions. It also summarizes highlights of the papers. Impressive. https://elicit.org

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@DrSuzanne @leslore As God as my witness, I though turkeys could fly!
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@blamb SOMEONE FETCH MY POST-IT NOTES!
D'Arcy NormanOct 31, 2022
looks like I have a PhD exam committee now. this is happening, people! looking at early jan. exam, which gives the holiday break to prep. nice!
D'Arcy NormanOct 31, 2022
@[email protected] @mackiwg @lightweight @drchuck even for bigger universities with budgets, institutional processes have a way of smothering innovation. OpenETC is a great example of leveraging institutional resources to enable individual innovation and experimentation. So good. We need to extend that one province to the right…
D'Arcy NormanOct 28, 2022

Welcome refugees from the bad place.

I work at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary, and am also wrapping up a PhD "The Teaching Game: Integrating HCI and SoTL By Adapting Video Game Research Methods".

Kind of living at the intersection of human-computer interaction and scholarship of teaching and learning, and thinking about how the connections between 2 disciplines shape our understanding of teaching and learning.

#hci #sotl #ucalgary #research

D'Arcy NormanDec 2, 2018
Now that I’ve paused my PhD for almost a year (pre-candidacy, so not even ABD), I’m no longer sure I’ll unpause it later. And I’m ok with that.
D'Arcy NormanNov 30, 2018
taking a day off to rest a bit. what do I do? check emails. check RSS feeds. send emails. stare blankly at twitter for a bit. time to seriously unplug for awhile. is that still a thing?